Balducci conceded. Great race, really. Both candidates not only kept it civil but agreed on most issues.

I crunched the numbers. Wilson's gonna win by 2112 votes.

She'll never make it! Still needs 54.77 percent out of the outstanding vote! This is BRUCETOWN! 😁 Now move along cause the park closes at sunset in Brucetown! 😝

The swearing is super cringey, guys. Is Hannah back as a copyeditor or something?

Yall use the word "fuck" too much, it really lessens the impact of the word.
You should swap in a "pee-pee" or a "poo-poo" or even a "dukey" or "potty" now and then for some variety and spice.

Oh, don't forget, "progressive" means "stupid and naive".

Seattle ballots returned as of today's drop = 279,521
Seattle ballots counted as of today's drop = 232,896
Seattle ballots outstanding based on no. of ballots returned as of today's drop = 46,625

Votes for Bruce as of today's drop = 116,435
Votes for Katie as of today's drop = 112,135
Katie vote deficit as of today's drop = 4,300

The number of ballots outstanding may increase, for example, if not all mailed ballots have arrived. But assuming arguendo that the number of ballots outstanding stays constant at 46,625, and assuming that everyone with an outstanding ballot actually fills in the mayor’s race, etc., etc., then Katie needs 25,363 of the outstanding votes to catch up, or roughly 54.4 percent of the outstanding votes.

(My previous number of 54.77 percent was based on 45,000 ballots outstanding cited in the Stranger’s report today, but I think that number was wrong, I think it’s 46,625 ballots outstanding. The more outstanding votes, the lower the percentage Katie needs to catch up.) 😄

Still gonna be BRUCETOWN! 😆

Well that does it. I think it's pretty clear that she's going to win, and that's......fine. It's the will of the people.

We'll see what the term brings. The fun thing about a new administration is that everything gets tossed into the air and has to be sorted out again.

@5 Perhaps you're also not smart enough to notice that the 54.85% of the remaining vote that Wilson got in the latest drop is more than the 54.4% that you say that she needs to win. So she's on track to win, by a small margin. I mean, unless you think that contrary to all prior evidence, the later-arriving votes will get more conservative.

Wilson ideally needed 56% but 55% may have sufficed - the fact she was close but not quite there will most likely be the story of this election. Good news, we’ll know Monday (one last chance for Wilson).

One observation, with all of the “don’t mail your ballot - USPS can’t be trusted” the pattern is a little off this year (in terms of the late voters). Still looks like Bruce squeaks this out (but for sure this is headed for a recount).

I hope Bruce does his little fucking basketball trick when he fucking concedes. That would fucking rule. FUCK!!!

@4 tryna put on a brave face during electoral certainty. Sure, those are funny words bro!

@9, solid point. Although it doesn’t change the fact of what type of voter votes when. I personally prefer USPS after the shenanigans at an unmanned drop box last year.

@8: lol, I'm glad you found my math helpful, and feel free to show your own if you think I've made a mistake. 😘

I'm expecting some of the late-breaking ballots will likely be mail-in ballots, which are more likely to come from older, wealthier people, who in turn are more likely to vote for yet more BRUCETOWN! 😂

Fuck Brucetown. Getting ready for fucking Wilsonville, you fucking fucks!!!

@3 have you never read the stranger? Haha.

Also you live in a godless city (or maybe you don’t and live across the water or north/south), this wasn’t an obnoxious amount of swearing haha.

Fucking deal with it 🙂‍↔️

@13: “Getting ready for fucking Wilsonville”

Hooverville. The name for Seattle under Wilson would be Hooverville. 😉

@15 Yeah, because we're gonna fucking HOOVER UP some wealth from some rich fucks and spit out some new fucking bus routes with the fucking funds! WELCOME TO WILSONVILLE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

@16: ok this guy gets it, please enjoy some thumpus emoji 😂😂😂

But you get no bragging rights for betting the favorite. Me, I called it for Bruce on the first drop, and I'm calling it again for Bruce today, even though the line on Kalshi is more than 3:1 against rn! 😛

Mister McFeely gonna come through with them late mail-in ballots and deliver us all to BRUCETOWN! 😝

I’m sure enough votes will be ‘found’ for Wilson to win. (nudge nudge wink wink)

@DOUG - Why do you Wilson so much?

@7: No, it's not clear at all. You're for Harrell - too late now to salvage your former crazy lefty reputation.

Coolidge dear, yes I voted for Harrell. it's not particularly intuitive of you to make that deduction. I find him to be the better of two rather dismal choices.

But I will support Wilson if she is the Mayor, because I am not some horrible Republican (Republicans are horrible people)

@21: No, Republicans are not horrible people unless you think I'm horrible because I am a Republican. Please make a note of it.

@19 I "Wilson so much" because I am addicted to Wilsoning. I Wilsoned first thing this morning. I will probably Wilson a little later in the shower, and then Wilson again before I go to bed (it helps me fall asleep).

@23: Ahh. Lucky for you the verb "like" didn't get typed in before I posted the comment. But you also didn't take the opportunity to name one good reason you're supporting her, because, quite frankly, there isn't any. Just like kristofarian, all he could come up with is that she has "integrity".

@23 - That was funny, but you've cursed yourself to have to picture Katie Wilson's pinched shrew-face when you try to masturbate.

@23: you gotta start Bruceing though, the first time you Bruce you never go back 😏

@12 I don't think you made a mistake in your math. I think you made a mistake interpreting your math. Your math shows that Wilson wins because she is presently getting more than the minimum percentage of the daily vote that you calculated that she needed to win and the remaining ballots can be expected to swing toward her.

@26 That explains why you've been Bruceing so hard. You just can't give it up even when your own math shows that you're wrong.

@27: Anyone who mailed a ballot in the day or two before the election hasn’t been counted yet. That’s gonna be mainly homeowners, baby, and they all want to live in BRUCETOWN! 😎 Katie better go ask mom for airfare back to New York! 😄

@8

it's a
Bott. so
cut it some
Slack, Jack &
maybe (Maybe),
it'll Kill You LAST.

@16 and
@13,
too:

BRAVO,
MOTHERFUCKER.

@24

"could"
does Not
Equal 'might'
but sometimes
RWNJ's just Ain't
Worth the Trouble.

Usually.
Typically.
Most times.

but not Always.

see:
https://post.thestranger.com/news/2025/11/06/80313382/slog-am-the-red-cup-rebellion-faa-cuts-flights-mamdanis-all-woman-transition-team/post-comment

@29: Ok, so you "might" come up with a reason for voting for Katie. That's fine and perfectly understandable. Thanks for the clarification.

Excellent commentary,
as per Usual,
CKathes.

and, no, KkKoolie:

I Might come up
with time to
deal with
a troll

but
then again
I just 'might' not.

but CONGRATS
(Mayhaps!) KATIE!

& Condolences, KkKoolie.

@31: oKKK, name that actually starts with a "k"

@32

if your
Actual last
name is Dollar,
KkKoolie, then I'll
eat my tennyshoes

feel
Fortunate:
you get THREE
Ks for the price of one And
your Sense of Entitlement is left unbruised.

@28 Ah, so you're imagining a scenario that fits your narrative, despite that scenario being wrong in pretty much every election in Seattle in the last decade. Good luck!

Sorry, coolidge dear but Republicans are horrible people, and if yo identify as a Republican, then you are horrible.

Do give your alter ego Raindrop our regards.)

@35: I would never have the indecency of calling you horrible regardless of your political views and regardless of whether you voted for Donald Trump or any anyone else. Political dispositions are transitory, even week to week.

@33: Slog history trivia for 1000, Alex: The answer is, the first slogger who coined "RepubliKKKans"?

@34: Bigger forehead = bigger chance of winning 😉

@36 -- 'transitory'? mayhaps.

but Ugly
goes Clear
to the Bone.

@Catalina
to me it's Doubtfull
KkKoolie is the dewdrop --
he's much too Agile where
dewey was forever bogged down
in trying to Impress Himself and fervently
fishing for Abuse and Attention tho, like the KkKoolie

an absolute Glutton for Punishment. but that's a Bingo

on anyone willing to Identify as a "Republican":

Horfucking~Riffic
by Any G.D.
measure.

by
ALL
Measure.

@39: But what if someone identifies as Republican but votes for Democrats? How Horfucking~Riffic IS THAT???

@39: You're also being a very very very naughty progressive when you attack anyone for who or what they identify as. Don't forget that there are trans Republicans as well as nonbinary Republicans as well as de-transitioned Republicans.

You really need to stop projecting your inclusivity.

@40 & 41

A. Slightly Less Horrific

B. how 'bout "Christians'
who seek to deprive others
of that they deem Themselves
ENTITLED To, strictly by birthright*

are we Not Allowed to call into
Question their Devotion to
Republican Jesus? can we
not Attack their ME-
FIRST Hypocrisy?

*they need to Stop
Codifying their
Bigotry

oh
And
Speak tF
OUT Against
ICE Stormtroopers

carting off fellow Citizens to
Slave Labor Camps or for
Export To Foreign
Profiteers who
work/Punish
them to
Death.

see
what
I'm getting
at, KkKoolie?

being
Horrific
is a F' Choice.

and you can
Just say
"No!"

Republicanism is what’s indecent, Coolidge dear. It’s a perversion of the soul.

Aren’t we losing track of what’s really important here, which is celebrating our journey together to BRUCETOWN! 😛

It’s ok to judge people when they self-identify as bigots who vote to take rights away from others, or even the minority of minorities who vote against their own self interests. Being trans doesn’t absolve someone for having bad politics. They’re being judged for their shitty beliefs, not their gender identity.

I get not liking Katie but actively liking Bruce Harrell is pretty strange.

@45: They wouldn't agree that they're a bigot or voting against their self-interest. So what do you say to that without sounding like a really arrogant know-it-all?

Well of course, most bigots won’t admit to it but their acknowledgment isn’t necessary for these things to be true.

In my lifetime the Republican party has animated its base with the promise of taking rights and benefits away from people and eliminating regulations that protect the environment and public health. There has never been a time since the 1980s when they weren’t using women, minorities, immigrants, and poor people as a wedge issue to drive support for policies that are harmful to everyone. Call me arrogant if it makes you feel better but that doesn’t change this dynamic. I don’t give a fuck what you think about me, i am just calling it as i see it.

@48: "Well of course, most bigots won’t admit to it but their acknowledgment isn’t necessary for these things to be true."

god, yes, just try asking a so-called "antizionist" about antisemitism and watch them furiously twist themselves into knots 😂

@48: "I don’t give a fuck what you think about me, i am just calling it as i see it."

And that's what your adversaries say about you. You'll never be a progressive with such an obstinate attitude.

😂 @49 😂

In AIPAC;'s and yours 😂
controlling the dabate 😂
over Israel's Genocide it 😂
was Crucial for y'all to Equate 😂
Pro-Palestinians and Anti-Genocide 😂
with Anti-semitism and it fucking Worked 😂

😂 but that don't Make it So. 😂

Masters of Projection 😂
Propaganda and 😂
War are you 😂

giving Cover 😂
for your Horrific 😂
narrative and agendas. 😂

@50

ya Don't
gotta be a Patsy
to be a Progressive

@51: How is it progressive to be against progress?

@50 who gives a fuck what “my adversaries” say. Their opinions don’t change the fact that republican policy preys on people’s worst instincts and has been a disaster for the middle and working class.

@53: But they say the same about you, right? It's fine to partisan, but you can't say you're a progressive if you don't work with the other party.

What the fuck are you talking about? I don’t give a fuck what people say about me because we’re talking about the impact of policy not people’s feelings. Progressive is a political identity, not a set of rules for how people behave, and you’re the one assigning labels here anyway because I’ve never claimed to self-identify as progressive. Not that it’s even remotely relevant, because my singular point is that the republican party scapegoats minorities at the expense of the middle and working class.

@55: Pardon me then, you're a partisan hack. So noted.

@56 not even going to count all the times i’ve said the republican party is hateful and destructive and you’re just figuring this out now. The democrats aren’t great either but i’m not going to split hairs over “partisan” because i don’t have any other choice. The republican party is an irredeemable menace to humanity.

@57: Understood, but the presidency cannot be won without votes from both parties.